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THE UN General Assembly has adopted a Palestinian-drafted, non-binding resolution demanding Israel end ‘its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ within 12 months. There...

‘We waited a year and now they tell us this. It’s a shame,’ said Alex Pereira, the cousin of the young Brazilian, Jean...

CHILDREN across the UK began sitting their Sats tests yesterday, with parents at many schools boycotting the exams and taking their children out of...

Norfolk County Fire Service faces savage cuts as a result of the County Council being starved of cash in the Blair government’s ...

YESTERDAY morning frantic savers once again laid siege to Northern Rock bank branches, determined to withdraw their savings, following the scenes over the weekend,...

IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has warned that the worldwide financial crisis is deepening and more threatening than ever. In a speech at the...

Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have ‘an important job to...

RMT pickets at Elephant and Castle Underground station were joined by supporters from Unite Community and members of the public yesterday morning. RMT member Ebony...

‘CUTTING social security even further and plunging more families into poverty is simply cruel, punishing the poorest in our society for the Tories’ economic failure,’ Public...

MPs yesterday raised questions about the ID card Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons by Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Clarke said he...

Yesterday’s announcement of 1,500 job cuts by Tata Steel in mills in Scunthorpe, Teesside and Hartlepool, is a ‘devastating blow’, the GMB union said. Keith...

At 5.20pm yesterday CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes declared that the two days’ strike action today and tomorrow were going ahead and...

Yesterday a junior defence minister and six parliamentary private secretaries resigned over Prime Minister Blair’s refusal to name a date for his departure. Junior defence...

ANY talk of ‘recovery’ has been well and truly scotched by the revelation that Britain’s trade deficit widened more than expected in January,...

The puppet Iraqi police force is infiltrated by sectarian militias and should be disbanded and reorganised, a panel of retired US generals led by...

RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday again urged the government to stop the privatisation of the NHS. Commenting on a warning by Audit Commission chairman James...

CALLS by the head of NHS Clinical Commissioners for most hospitals to be ‘downsized’ or closed and for 50 per cent of current hospital...

PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...

UNISON public sector union has pledged to ‘fight on’ in the face of the High Court ruling rejecting Unison’s challenge to the government’s...

A PALESTINIAN woman was killed yesterday when Israeli forces opened live fire in the Al-Jenena neighbourhood, east of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to...

POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...

‘THE STATE must step back and let the private sector get to work,’ Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared in his virtual Tory Party...

Julian Assange, head of Wikileaks, won a victory at the High Court yesterday with its ruling that he has the right to appeal to...

The University and College Union (UCU) announced yesterday that its members at the University of West England (UWE), Bristol, will be balloted for strike...

Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...

MINERS at Eastern Platinum (Eastplats) in South Africa came out on strike yesterday, alongside the striking Marikana miners, in a sign that the strike...

EIGHTY-NINE people took their own lives in prisons during 2015 as the suicide rate behind bars remained at an alarmingly high level, figures...

THE death toll from Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza topped 35,000 yesterday, as the regime’s tanks rolled into the massive Jabalia refugee camp. At least...

STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all trade unionists to join them on their march through Hounslow on Saturday the 25th of March. Speaking...

THE General Command of the Syrian army said yesterday that ‘Our armed forces succeeded early on Wednesday to restore security and stability to the...

THERE was a hardened determination on the striking postal workers picket lines yesterday morning, as Communication Workers Union (CWU) members defiantly rebutted the Royal...

FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the...

Defiant Visteon workers are still occupying three factories in Enfield, Basildon and Belfast. Over 250 trade unionists and youth rallied in support of the...

MORE than 100 people staged a mass lobby of Southwark Town Hall in south London on Wednesday night. The rain did not dampen their spirits,...

THE Tories’ lead over the Labour Party has narrowed to just two per cent, according to an opinion poll published yesterday. The poll of more...

HEALTH regulator Monitor has authorised West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust as a new foundation trust, effectively privatising it from 1st January, 2013. The trust...

LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers received their monthly hardship payments of £228.80 from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) yesterday. ‘We received it today...

LABOUR Shadow Chancellor McDonnell said yesterday that Labour may form the next government, a minority government, without a general election, if MPs don’t back...

THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...

TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors began six more days of strike action yesterday, determined to defeat attacks on their pay and on the...

Cardiff University and College Union (UCU) lecturers branch has called on national union leaders to resign over calling off industrial action before consulting members...

Prime Minister Cameron announced yesterday that Michael Gove is to be Justice Secretary in the new Tory government, replacing Chris Grayling who is now...

HUNDREDS of angry electricians halted the traffic for 20 minutes outside St Paul’s Cathedral in central London yesterday morning, during their latest demonstration against...